In meetings with Western journalists its leaders sometimes disavow it altogether and describe themselves as mildly pious social or liberaldemocrats.
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Mr Clegg's party is a fusion of the old Liberal Party and the short-lived SocialDemocrats, who broke away from Labour in the 1980s and most of his activists lean in the second direction.
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But the LiberalDemocrats said the report highlighted falling social mobility and that a quarter of the population are being left behind.
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